Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation Free Course in Automata Theory I have prepared a course in automata theory (finite automata, context-free grammars, decidability, and intractability), and it begins April 23, 2012. You can learn more about the course at www.coursera.org/course/automata. Several other courses will start at the same time, including Alex Aiken on Compilers,